The rapid increase in the aging population will increase the demand for geriatric practitioners. The Institute of Medicine (IOM)4has dubbed this great surge of the aging population “the silver tsunami” because it will overwhelm a workforce that will be inadequate to provide general health care ...
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“Adding real-time surgical intervention to our pre- and postoperative ultrasound capabilities not only gives us entry into the operating room but improves surgeons’ decision-making, efficiency, and accuracy, as well as health care outcomes for millions of people,” Rott says. DiA is a provider ...
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Introduction. In spite of the wide spread and availability of the clinical practice guidelines, several problems limit and influence their implementation. Several studies explored how a protocol based care may influence nurses' decision making processes,... 展开 ...
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Feixa Llarga, s/n, 08907. L’Hospitalet, Barcelona, 08907, Spain Samantha Aso & Susana Padrones Clinical Research Unit, Institut Català d’Oncologia, Avinguda Gran via 199-203. L’Hospitalet, Barcelona, 08908, Spain Valent...
BMC Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on surgical research, training, and practice.BMC Surgery is part of the BMC ...
Using a case study of community-based falls prevention, this article explores how incorporating a multivariate frailty index in a decision model can help address the above key challenges. Methods A conceptual structure of the relationship between geriatric shocks and frailty was developed. This ...
Decisions to continue or deprescribe diuretics or SGLT2is in fall-prone older HF patients are generally highly complex, but detailed insight into fall-related side effect profiles of these drug classes, and practical clinical decision tools and resources, assist prescribers in rational and personalize...